The New Focus of Agile Product Development: An Intro to Product Discovery
It’s been over 10 years since the official Agile movement startedㅡa time when companies were focused on projects, deadlines, and budgets. Agile approaches shifted thinking from large, single delivery linear projects to small incremental, continuously delivered features. This shift demanded changes in thinking around many parts of the organization. Managing the complex environment of delivering […]
High Performing Distributed Agile Teams
Mark Spitzer, Agile Coach, presented at the San Antonio Agilistas meeting. In this presentation, he addressed common challenges for distributed agile teams. Common scenarios are covered along with practical suggestions that have been successful for many organizations. This presentation debunked the agile myth that it can’t work when an organization has distributed teams. Once upon […]
Legacy Applications: Lessons in Coupling
I struggled with a number of potential topics for this blog before settling on this one. I understand this isn’t a flashy topic like a comparison of JavaScript MVC frameworks or centralized logging solutions; however, I’ve been working on-and-off with legacy applications throughout my career and have come to truly realize the constrictive nature of […]
Agile Coaching Variations
What is an Agile Coach? Teams that are adopting or facing challenges with Agile development often turn to an Agile Coach for help. Agile Coaches are usually someone more experienced with Agile process and techniques who can guide the team through rough patches until they can find their own way. Like a sports coach, an […]
Virtualization Makes Me a Better Developer
In the past, developers either had only the choice between multiple machines or sharing development environments. In the first instance, this is an expensive solution and in the second, lots of developers sharing a single environment leads to contention issues. To further exacerbate this problem, the trend is towards application deployments that involve multiple servers. Luckily, […]
An Effective Approach to Agile Development Team Challenges
A Team’s Agile Development Journey What typically happens when a software team adopts agile values and principles and implements a framework (such as Scrum)? Normally, after some initial learning, an early positive impact is common along with a feeling of progress. But the team soon encounters new challenges as they realize their journey has […]
Our Thanks To Attendees of Global Day of Coderetreat 2014!!!
Agile Velocity had a great time hosting and facilitating a location in Austin during Global Day of Coderetreat 2014! This was our first time hosting and facilitating this event and we enjoyed the group that came out for some community, learning, and deliberate practice!We had a small group (largely due to our late entry into […]
Agile Benefits – Deliver Double the Value
Are you successfully realizing agile benefits and effectively delivering software? David Hawks, CST, CSC, and CEO of Agile Velocity, demonstrates how our Technical Player-Coaches work with your team(s) and help organizations realize a 50% gain in productivity. Say you need to get 50% productivity increase, if I have a team of 6 people, you can add 3 […]
The Technical Debt Game
Technical Debt Every software project has it. Technical debt in a software project is essentially a backlog of technical stories the development team thinks need to be completed that are not visible to the product owner and don’t directly implement user features. These stories arise from either the inevitable trade-offs made during rapid implementation, or […]
Being Agile – Deliver Double the Value in Half the Time
David Hawks’ presentation, Being Agile vs. Doing Agile: Deliver Double the Value in Half the Time, given at the PMI conference in Austin, September 2014. Being Agile: Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development processes harness change for customer’s […]